1、托福（作文）模拟试卷 20及答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Experience 1 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Boys and girls should attend separate schools. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 2 Is it more important to be able to work with a group of people in a team o
2、r to work independently? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer. 3 Your city has decided to build a statue or monument to honor a famous person in your country. Who would you choose? Use reasons and specific examples to support your choice. 4 Describe a custom from your country tha
3、t you would like people from other countries to adopt. Explain your choice, using specific reasons and examples. 托福（作文）模拟试卷 20答案与解析 Writing Based on Knowledge and Experience 1 【正确答案】 Should boys and girls attend separate schools? In my country, China, many people in a sense live in a ridiculous cult
4、ure where young boys and girls should never say “love“ to each other. Moreover, it is absolutely a shame that such affairs happen in campus. To avoid alleged shame or danger of it, some people assert that boys and girls should attend separate schools. The point is, is there anything wrong when a lit
5、tle boy says “I love you“ to a little girl? Gone are the days when “love“ was a forbidden word in our culture. It has now, nevertheless, actually quite different connotations from those of the word in Western society. It can be seen that people in Hollywood movies often say “I love you“ to almost ev
6、eryone naturally, readily and easily, including friends, family members, partners in work, even an unknown taxi driver! But in China, not surprisingly, many people have never said “I love you“ to their parents, even seldom to their mates or children. “Love“, in Chinese word, does in fact carry subtl
7、e connotations related to immoral affairs. It seems not a problem of is there anything wrong, but one of there must be something wrong if a teenager dares to say anything about “love!“ Even if there must be something wrong when a teenager falls into love, is it something so appalling even evil that
8、adults have to take action to prevent or even fight? Did we ever discover any prudent evidence which clearly proves it is really something bad? Hardly. It is in fact quite natural that a little boy admire a beautiful girl or a little girl feel a smart boy appealing. And such emotions do not harm any
9、thing. Alleged “puppy love“ simply is a nonsense concept invented by ignorance. Girls and boys actually do not even know what love is! Perhaps they merely imitate behaviors of adults around them. What we adults should do is not to make them believe “love“ is evil, but to teach them what true love re
10、ally means. Regrettably, those adults never realize that they actually fail to assume their responsibility, but presumptuously believe they are capable of eliminating love among boys and girls by separating them into different schools. It will never work. A separate school once was one of evil signs
11、 of discrimination of women, but today reemerges to prevent “love affairs“ among teenagers a high school in Beijing recently announced that it has already separated girls from boys into different classes. I can hardly imagine any benefit that such a scheme could produce except for further distortion
12、s of teenagers nature. 【知识模块】 作文 2 【正确答案】 Working with a team or working independently? While some people emphasize great importance of cooperation, others argue that the significance of individual competition should not be rejected or neglected. To examine whether one is more important than the oth
13、er, we have to look carefully into further details. There are circumstances where the ability to work with a team is much more important than that to work independently. More often than not, in most fields, a team can achieve a much more extensive scope than an individual can, because one has less s
14、trength than many have. In team-played sports, such as football, basketball and volleyball, teamwork is often highly valued and is of essence. To get a goal or make a point, team members have to cooperate with each other, nobody could achieve without others help. Although individual competence is a
15、must, too much accent on ones personal ability will lead one, even the whole team, to a disaster. On the other hand, there also are inverse circumstances. In vital decision-making, for example, one has to make a final choice with his/her own judgment. Lets consider the same situation mentioned above
16、, on the very same sports ground, each opposite team has only one and should have only one coach, who must work independently to make important decisions, including which player should be replaced, which player should be used on what kind of special circumstances, and so many other critical choices.
17、 The coach, like the commander in the war, stands on a position where he/she has to be competitive, and his/her only rival is the coach of the other side. Even if he/she at the same time has to consult with others, it is him/her who takes the final step, and he/she essentially has no choice but to h
18、ave an excellent ability to work independently. There seldom exists a circumstance where cooperation and competition do not coexist. The point is that emphasis on cooperation does not mean competition should be neglected or rejected, and vice versa. Therefore, it has not gone too far to say that bot
19、h the ability of working with a team and that of working independently are equally important. 【知识模块】 作文 3 【正确答案】 Whom in your country would you choose to build a statue for? If my city has decided to build a statue to honor a famous person in my country, I would choose a late singer, Teresa Teng. Sh
20、e was born in the 1950s, and died of a severe asthma attack at age 41 in May 1995 while holidaying in Chiang Mai, Thailand, triggering an outpouring of grief among her legions of fans in Asia and elsewhere. During her brilliant stage career, favored by fans all over Asia, she moved millions of peopl
21、e. Her famous songs include “sweet honey honey“, “the story of a small town“, and “the moon represents my heart“. It was said that it was her who introduced several generations in China to a certain field of popular music. Her songs have accompanied the growth and development of many people in China
22、. In the home of these generations soul, her sweet voice has become immortal beauty and memory. Although she has gone, her voice of singing has never vanished. She is constantly commemorated; from Beijing to Taipei, Hong Kong to Singapore, her ubiquitous fans observe her commemoration from time to t
23、ime, cherishing her incredible beauty, and her voice that seems to come from heaven. Her sweet songs made her a legend, and are still regularly heard on radio, and continue to have a following in Chinese communities all over the world. She should be remembered not only because of her beauty and voic
24、e, but also because of her great charity. She founded the Teresa Teng Foundation during her lifetime. The purpose of the foundation is to cultivate and support gifted artists, and at the same time the foundation includes a trust to distribute scholarships to make sure that art students have opportun
25、ities to accomplish what they actually can. Every year, the Teresa Teng Foundation also send a great amount of money as a charity to help homeless children. And these activities are supported by her fans all over the world. 【知识模块】 作文 4 【正确答案】 A custom from your country that you would like people fro
26、m other countries to adopt My favorite custom from Chinese culture that I wish other countries would adopt is “Respect the Old, Love the Young.“ These two ideas have been part of traditional Chinese culture for thousands of years, but they are more important than ever in contemporary Chinese culture
27、. If adopted by Western countries, these two traditional attitudes could help them solve some of their social problems. One major problem in many Western countries is what to do with old people when they can no longer take care of themselves. A Chinese family will often have three generations of one
28、 family living under the same roof. They love and respect the older generation, and consider them wise. Western people believe that living with ones own parents is inconvenient and embarrassing. Instead of respecting old people, some think that they are stupid and ugly. When Western families parents
29、 get old, they would rather send them into nursing homes and retirement homes than live together with them. Only old and sick people live in these places and they are considered depressing, in the worst cases they might seem like a prison to their inhabitants. Old people in the West would be much ha
30、ppier if they adopted these traditional Chinese attitudes. Juvenile delinquency is another serious social problem in Western cultures. Its causes can also be traced back to a lack of respect for old people and love for young people. Children are not taught to respect the wishes of their parents and
31、instead value their relationships with their friends more. Because in many Western families both parents have jobs outside of the home, children often lack adequate supervision. Chinese families, by contrast, often have at least one parent, or a grandparent at home to take care of and love the child
32、ren. Children without proper guidance and love from a young age might start to smoke, drink, use drugs, and commit crimes. This occurs much less frequently in China because people pay more attention to their children and have the childrens grandparents nearby to help raise them. The West puts the “i
33、ndividual“ before the “family“. Traditional Chinese culture puts the interests of the family first, and the individual second. Chinese mothers and fathers place higher value on their childs development, than on their childs independence. Children place a higher value on their parents happiness than on their own convenience. While there are many excellent lessons that Chinese people can learn from the West, Western people would do well to learn from these essential Chinese traditions. 【知识模块】 作文
